Quotes About Absurdity

Cuando el mal gusto alcanza tales extremos, sólo queda el recurso de la risa

Sí, la vida está llena de estos pequeños sinsabores que la perturban de un modo negativo. Mucho más que los problemas metafísicos, son las ínfimas contrariedades las que nos muestran el lado aburdo de la existencia.

They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.

In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.

What's funny is that an old Web site of mine just had one fake bio, and everyone went crazy for it. So when I made the new Web site, I thought, 'I just need to make this one even more absurd.'

I like wee arguments, I've never been into jokes. I'm more into strange things and madness and things escalating and things not really making sense.

Washington is nothing if not an orchard of absurdities, and poking fun at power brokers is neither sex blind nor for the faint of heart.

The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

I would love to see everybody get a pony, don't get me wrong.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

You know you're a fool when what you're doing makes even the post office seem efficient.

There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

I want to show the absurdity on the process of putting a value to a copy.

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.

There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.

I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

If Mason wasn't crazy before, he's definitely joined the banana army now.